Seeks Quotes
753 quotes by 574 authors
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to…
— Walter Benjamin
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The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate…
— Dennis Hastert
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Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are not so unique…
— Robert Ardrey
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Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings…
— Gary L. Francione
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True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's…
— John Milton
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The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who…
— Chidananda Saraswati
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
— Seneca the Younger
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Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.
— Robert Grudin
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Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces…
— Emanuel Lasker
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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
— Robert Harris
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He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible
— Francis Parker Yockey
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If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for…
— Robert Higgs
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There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the…
— Jamsetji Tata
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He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or…
— Johann Most
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The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
— Socrates
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